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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alfred A Hampson, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas B Hutchins, deceased, late of Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Can and Bottle Systems, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235464 ; 235494 ;
Abstract
A redeemable carbonated beverage can on the lid of which there is provided a pair of spaced, redundant, arcuately distributed code patches containing regional redemption information. The code patches are read by a scanning laser beam. These patches may be formed in several different ways, as by impressing them, embossing them, or printing them. Information in the patches may be coded in any convenient manner, as, for example, in a binary-type code or in a frequency-type code.